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• And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Would Be, States, Ifs

  "Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works".

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• I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.

  William Albert Allard

  Believe, Knowing, Special

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• There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

  Edward Abbey

  Self, Objectivity, Moral

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• There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Artist, Opportunity

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• Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next--and on and on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Islands, People, Heaven

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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• Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.

  Orson Scott Card

  Running, Couple, Moving

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• It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

  Damien Rice

  Grows, Knows

  Song: Cannonball, Album: O, 2003

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• People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

  Elliott Smith

  Thinking, People, Convincing

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• It's about ethical. It's about leading from the front, and it's kind of hard to look at people and say hey, listen, we need to cut back or it may cost you more money - if you're not willing to do the same thing.

  Rich Nugent

  Cutting, People, May

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• You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

  Randall Munroe

  Trying, Process

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• There is, how­ever, a strong empir­i­cal rea­son why we should cul­ti­vate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be use­ful. Man pos­i­tively needs gen­eral ideas & con­vic­tions that will give a mean­ing to his life & enable him to find a place for him­self in the uni­verse. He can stand the most incred­i­ble hard­ships when he is con­vinced that they make sense; he is crushed when on top of all his mis­for­tunes, he has to admit that he is tak­ing part in a ‘tale told by an idiot.’

  Carl Jung

  Strong, Mean, Son

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• When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

  Mark Van Doren

  World, Reason Why, Failing

  Mark Van Doren (1968). “Autobiography”

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• We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.

  Hannah Arendt

  Heart, Essence, Political

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• I haven't had a cramp since '99. That was my only time, in Davis Cup, when I was panicky. I was young. I'm very proud of that. Never pulled out. Never had cramps. Never lost very much because of fitness, especially later on in my career where I knew I've put in the hard work. I've done that. I've been very fortunate and clever as well to understand how I need to work, when I need to work. So I'm very happy to have stayed injury free for so long. I hope I can still maintain a few good years on the tour. I really hope so.

  Roger Federer

  Clever, Hard Work, Years

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• The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

  Rafael Nadal

  Hard Work, Winning, Player

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• That's what you do all the hard work for, to play in situations that put your body through gruelling times. If you're not up to it, pull out.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Hard Work, Play, Tennis

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• Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

  Boris Becker

  Sports, Stupid, Athlete

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• Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

  Jim Courier

  Years, Forgiving, Lucky

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• It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.

  E. L. James

  Family, Growing Up, Perfect

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• A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

  Marianne Moore

  Editing, Editors, Unfair

  Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, 1963.

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• If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, People, Soul

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• I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My ancestors once owned slaves, and it is in my lineage to work closely with the black community. However, just because they were freed over a century ago doesn’t mean they can now be freeloaders. They need to be told to work hard, and the incentives just aren’t there for them anymore. When I’m president I plan to work closely with the black community to bring a sense of pride and work ethic back into view for them.

  Mitt Romney

  Hard Work, Mean, Pride

  "Mitt Romney: I Can Relate To Black People, My Ancestors Once Owned Slaves" by S.Wood, www.freewoodpost.com.

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• There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.

  David Mamet

  Hard Work, Talent, Enough

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• The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Dark, Lakes, Color

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

  PJ Harvey

  Blessed, Inspiration, Trying

  Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. February 15, 2011.

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